Professional development modules
This area houses a number of modules aimed to support your own professional development.
Assessment Tool: Briefing Learners
These video clips are designed to assist educators who are using Online Adaptive Reading or Numeracy Assessments. Each video clip comes with a paper based support resource which outlines the teaching points and suggests key messages for tutors or kaiako to remember when administering the Assessment Tool.
Developing literacy & numeracy learning outcomes
This tutorial is intended to help educators develop and articulate clear literacy and/or numeracy outcomes or goals to address gaps between learners’ skills and course demands.
Knowing Your Learner - Engaging Māori learners
This section contains a report that concludes the sector consultation hui held in 2010 and synthesises key messages and themes from stakeholders represented at each hui. It also contains chapters from a DVD entitled “Knowing your learner - Engaging Māori learners: an introductory resource for adult literacy and numeracy educators”. This is a teaching tool designed for educators working in the tertiary sector to help them better understand Mātauranga Māori and models of practice that may assist with engaging Māori learners.
Knowing Your Learner - Engaging Pasifika learners
The Tertiary Education Commission has recently produced a second DVD resource to accompany the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. It follows an earlier DVD Knowing your Learner, Engaging Māori learners.
Knowing your learner: Interpreting Individual Learner Reports
This module examines the components of the Assessment Tool individual learner reports and explores how to use the data from the learner reports to plan embedded literacy and numeracy teaching to develop learners’ skills.
Knowing Your Learner: Learning Progression Step Profiles and Assessment Tool Reports
This tutorial is designed to help educators use the Group reports generated by the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Assessment Tool to compare their course literacy and numeracy demands with their learners’ current literacy and numeracy skills.
Professional Learning: Reading - learning modules
This module is for those people working with learners who are reading at entry-level.
Professional Learning: Writing - learning modules
This professional development unit contains three modules: Knowing your learners’ writing skills, Acting on information about your learners’ writing: next steps, and Making the most of opportunities to strengthen your learners’ writing.
Teaching Writing: Writing with clarity and focus
This module provides tutors with ways to pass on key writing concepts so learners can plan, write, revise and edit anything from short answers in workbooks and filling in forms to longer paragraphs in reports and essays. It also allows them to have worked step-by-step through ways of teaching learners how to write paragraphs using two basic paragraph structures.